Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . sture. There is moistureenough in the air in damp weather anyhowwithout taking chances on moisture fromthe ground. The doors to the bins are made of looseboards dropped into grooves so that oneboard may be put in or taken out as re-quired. A little extra expense put into thequality of the flooring is money well laid-out. The floor should be free from shakeand fairly free from knots, at least thereshould ho no black knots. BARN PLANS 27 A Balloon
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . sture. There is moistureenough in the air in damp weather anyhowwithout taking chances on moisture fromthe ground. The doors to the bins are made of looseboards dropped into grooves so that oneboard may be put in or taken out as re-quired. A little extra expense put into thequality of the flooring is money well laid-out. The floor should be free from shakeand fairly free from knots, at least thereshould ho no black knots. BARN PLANS 27 A Balloon Roofed Barn—^143 A good sized barn with a basement sta-ble, a good threshing floor and a large stor-age for fodder is shown in plan (A143).The wall may be made of stone or cementaccording to circumstances. Eight feethead room is enough for the cow stablebut usually nine feet is better for a horse this case there is a good deal of outsidewall clear of the bank and the windowsmay be made large. Balloon roofs are becoming quite pop-ular in barn construction, but some of thefirst ones were not made strong enoughand heavv winds wrecked them. This. rLcy/rr/Ofl/ ?s^cr/oA/ stable. This barn should front the southand the root house should be, if possible,in a bank on the north side and the feedalley is so arranged that a feed car may berun into the root house on a level. It probably would be better to constructa board partition between the horse stableand the cow stable, but the calf and bullpens would be better without a partitionbecause the air will circulate better andthere will be more light in the cow stable. One objection to a basement stable isthe difficulty of lighting it properly. Agood deal depends on the exposure. In roof however is braced by the gables fromevery direction which makes the structurea strong one. The threshing floor is open in the centerto the roof but it may be floored over atthe ends if so desired. The intention is towork the horse fork from this«floor; t
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